LAWS CONCERNING ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN AND THEIR MOTHERS.

The law only enforces the parents to maintain such child, and the sum the
father is obliged to pay, after an order of affiliation is proved against
him, never exceeds two shillings and sixpence a week.

The mother, as long as she is unmarried or a widow, is bound to maintain such
child as a part of her family until such child attain the age of
sixteen.

A man marrying a woman having a child or children at the time of such
marriage is bound to support them, whether legitimate or not, until the age
of sixteen.

The only incapacity under which he labours is that he cannot be heir‐at‐law
nor next of kin to any person, nor can he have collateral heirs, but only
lineal descendants; if he acquire property and die without a will, such
property will go to the crown unless he have lineal descendants.